Kaizenlabs

Chief Technology Officer

New York, NY · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago

Procurement

About the role

We have live federal deployments, real pull from USDA, DoW, DHS, and Commerce, and a product thesis proving out in production.
What we need now is a technical general to command both Platform and Delivery: two fundamentally different operating modes that must run in parallel without collapsing into each other.
Delivery wins and executes federal engagements at speed - high-tempo, AI-native, ships-or-dies.

Command the Platform and Delivery organizations as distinct operating units (each with its own culture, mandate, and accountability structure) and be the single point of accountability for the output of both
Own the Kaizen 2.0 architecture: sequence the build of 12 core modules in the right order, hold the line on abstraction, and ensure the foundation compounds rather than fractures under delivery pressure
Lead the Blacksmith initiative, which is Kaizen's internal AI configuration harness that transforms agency requirements documents into runnable, pre-configured repositories and eliminates the time-to-first-commit tax on every new federal engagement
Drive federal technical strategy - FedRAMP posture, DoD IL4/IL5 readiness, and procurement-aware architecture decisions that keep Kaizen competitive in federal BD conversations
Recruit, develop, and retain builders who operate at the frontier of AI-native government technology, and who understand that shipping for government is different from shipping for anyone else
Native fluency with AI-native development - you build with AI tools yourself, you've thought seriously about agentic pipelines and AI-assisted delivery, and you set the standard rather than follow it

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